This festival-filled weekend, Emmylou Harris, Chris Thile, Punch Brothers, and Nickel Creek return to Telluride Bluegrass Festival for its 50th. Makaya McCraven plays Bonnaroo. Molly Tuttle continues a childhood tradition at the Father’s Day Bluegrass Festival in Grass Valley, CA, with her band Golden Highway. The Black Keys are at Pinkpop in the Netherlands and in Paris with guests Spoon. Sam Amidon plays Solas Festival in Scotland. Caroline Shaw is at Louth Contemporary Music Society Festival in Ireland. Laurie Anderson concludes her European tour in Gothenburg, Oslo, and Berlin. Performances of David Byrne and Fatboy Slim's Here Lies Love begin on Broadway.
This festival-filled long weekend, the 50th annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival in Colorado began yesterday and continues through Sunday, with return appearances by Emmylou Harris, Chris Thile, Punch Brothers, and Nickel Creek. Following a solo performance yesterday morning, Thile joins his Nickel Creek band mates Sara Watkins and Sean Watkins on the main stage tonight, followed by a NightGrass set at The Palm Theatre. He and fellow Punch Brothers take the festival stage Sunday afternoon, immediately followed by a set from Emmylou Harris and special guest Watchhouse. As per tradition, Punch Brothers close things out with a NightGrass performance at Sheridan Opera House Sunday night.
Punch Brothers' latest album, Hell on Church Street, a reimagining of, and homage to, the late bluegrass great Tony Rice’s landmark solo album Church Street Blues, featuring an inspired collection of songs by Bob Dylan, Gordon Lightfoot, Bill Monroe, and others, was released on Nonesuch last year. Harris’s album Stumble Into Grace, which turns 20 this year, was released on vinyl for the first time last month in a limited cream-colored vinyl edition. Nickel Creek released an album on Nonesuch, A Dotted Line, in 2014.
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On the festival front, Makaya McCraven plays the This Tent stage at the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee, on Sunday afternoon. McCraven, who recently won the Deutscher Jazzpreis for International Drums/Percussion, released his new album, In These Times, last fall, making several year's best album lists, including those of Pitchfork ("a high-water mark"), NPR Music's Nate Chinen ("the culmination of a years-long experiment in groove ... just might be Makaya McCraven's manifesto"), and Treble ("McCraven's masterwork").
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Following a set at Bonnaroo last night, Molly Tuttle returns to the Father’s Day Bluegrass Festival in Grass Valley, California—a festival she attended as a child with her own father, a music teacher and multi-instrumentalist. The childhood experience inspired “Grass Valley,” a song on Crooked Tree, the Grammy Award–winning debut album from her and her band Golden Highway, who joins her the 48th annual festival tonight and Saturday. Tuttle and the band released the official video for “Next Rodeo,” a song from their upcoming album, City of Gold, yesterday; you can watch it here.
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The Black Keys, back in Europe and the UK for the first time in eight years, play a set Megaland in Landgraaf, Netherlands, on Saturday, as part of the Pinkpop festival, before heading to France to kick off a six-city run with special guests Spoon at Zénith Paris on Sunday and Monday. The shows continue throughout the month in London, Manchester, Glasgow, Cologne, and Hamburg.
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Sam Amidon performs at Errol Park in Perthshire, Scotland, on Saturday, as part of Solas Festival.
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Caroline Shaw joins the Esposito Quartet—violinists Mia Cooper and Anna Cashel, viola player Joachim Roewer, and cellist William Butt—at the Spirit Store in Dundalk, Ireland, on Saturday, as part of the Louth Contemporary Music Society Festival. The program features works by Shaw, including the title piece from Evergreen, her Grammy Award–winning album with Attacca Quartet, released last year on Nonesuch, as well as a new piece by Laurence Crane.
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Laurie Anderson concludes her Let X=X European tour, named after the track on her 1982 debut album, Big Science, with the band Sex Mob—Steven Bernstein, Briggan Krauss, Tony Scherr, Kenny Wollesen, and Doug Wieselman—this weekend, with shows at Pustervik, in Gothenburg, Sweden, tonight, Rockefeller in Oslo on Saturday, and Tingel Tangel in Berlin on Monday.
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Preview performances of the Broadway premiere production of Here Lies Love begin at the Broadway Theatre in New York City this Saturday. The immersive disco pop musical is based on the rise and fall of Imelda Marcos and the People Power Revolution of the Philippines, with music by David Byrne and Fatboy Slim. The official Opening Night for the production, directed by Alex Timbers and choreographed by Annie-B Parson, is July 20.
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